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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Drama in life. New York : Hastings House, c1976 (OCoLC)564942443 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James E Combs; Michael W Mansfield |
| ISBN: | 0803815557 9780803815551 0803815565 9780803815568 |
| OCLC Number: | 1818448 |
| Description: | xxx, 444 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction / George N. Gordon -- Part one: The variation of perspectives -- Definitions-theater / Bernard Beckerman -- Dramatism / Kenneth Burke -- Symbols and men / George N. Gordon -- Axiomatic propositions / Hugh Duncan -- Society as drama / Peter Berger -- Man as an actor / Maurice Natanson -- The dramatic actor and reality / Georg Simmel -- The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman -- Life as theater : some notes on the dramaturgic approach to social reality / Sheldon L. Messinger, Harold Sampson and Robert D. Towne -- Part two: Social interaction as drama -- Human destiny / Eric Berne -- Social encounters : the staging of the self-esteem / Ernest Becker -- On face-work : an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction / Erving Goffman -- Stage fright and the problem of identity / Stanford M. Lyman and Marvin B. Scott -- The fiddle factor : social binding functions of distractions / Robert R. Smith and Robert W. Hawkes -- Part three: Mass communication as drama -- Play theory / William Stephenson -- The world outside and the pictures in our heads / Walter Lippmann -- From news gathering to news making : a flood of pseudo-events / Daniel Boorstin -- Mass media : the transformation of a political hero / W. Lloyd Warner -- Mass communication and para-social interaction : observations on intimacy at a distance / Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl -- Communicating intention / George N. Gordon -- Part four: Public dramas -- A dramatic theory of status politics / Joseph R. Gusfield -- The drama, illusion and reality of political images / Dan Nimmo -- Dramatic encounters / Orrin Klapp -- The dramaturgy of politics / Richard M. Merelman -- The meaning of the coronation / Edward Shils and Michael Young -- Conditions of successful degradation ceremonies / Harold Garfinkel -- Selections from Love's Body / Norman O. Brown-- Part five: Organizational dramaturgy -- Dramaturgy : the dramaturgical aspect of organizations / Victor Thompson -- Places / Erving Goffman -- Political settings as symbolism / Murray Edelman -- The ritual drama of mutual pretense / Barney G. Glaser and Anselm L. Straws -- Part six: Culture and history as drama -- The ritualization of the past / Lloyd Warner -- History as fiction / Bill Kinser and Neil Kleinman -- The present state of the documentary / James Arnold -- Trash, art, and the movies / Pauline Kael -- Concluding remarks : Existence, communications, and the dramaturgial perspective. |
| Series Title: | Humanistic studies in the communication arts; Communication arts books. |
| Responsibility: | edited by James E. Combs and Michael W. Mansfield. |
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